Air pollution in China may have caused millions of deaths since 2000

By Donna Lu

JACKY CHEN/REUTERS

Air pollution in China and Taiwan is estimated to private resulted in the untimely deaths of 30.8 million adults since 2000.

Yang Liu at Emory College in Atlanta, Georgia, and his colleagues vulnerable satellite imagery to quantify the volume of air pollution over mainland China, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan between 2000 and 2016. The physique of workers vulnerable imagery taken by NASA satellites to estimate the concentrations of PM2.5 – particulate topic lower than 2.5 micrometres in diameter.

One size the satellite takes is the volume of sunlight hours that has been scattered or absorbed by …